Sunday morning coffee on my porch is my favourite thing. This morning was a bonus Sunday coffee on a holiday Monday.
Where's Daniel? I don't know, but there's his steaming cup of coffee. Just a Canadian guy who likes coffee, physics, tech, BIKES!, books, and my kids.
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Sunday morning coffee on my porch is my favourite thing. This morning was a bonus Sunday coffee on a holiday Monday.
We trust the experts because they hold themselves accountable and require constant review of the evidence used to make their decisions.
I learned about your writing from Bluesky and then subscribed.
Terminally online person who doesn’t understand Bluesky has an opinion. Democrats beware!! The avoidance of the kind of things that voters are begging for, the politics of humanity and caring, will sink democracy.
Naw, you deserve the recommendation. That was a heck of a book. It reminded me of this tiny Canadian indie film I saw back in university: Cube
I highly, HIGHLY, recommend The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social Horror novel that gripped me right from the start.
Have any of these geniuses thought about what happens after this?
Next up on my reading list: @scalzi.com’s Old Man’s War
What a mess of a website. God forbid they bother to listen to a user at some point. Social media was a failed experiment.
Sorry, how has Mehdi sold himself out to the right? By agreeing to the Jubilee thing?
"everyone does it" you are still effectively taking out a gun and firing random shots off when you do this, if you don't treat your car like a lethal weapon you are a bad person
It’s too left to want a functioning society that isn’t based on people wholly in it for themselves and just wanting to see a more peaceful, thoughtful, and equitable life for everyone. The audacity of it all..
I love all my pants, jeans, and shorts from Duer. They’re primarily Canadian, I believe.
If ever there was someone who needs to get off the internet for a spell it’s Taylor. She’s so reactionary it’s insufferable, even if some of what she says is right. She’s disparaged so much of the US left online.
Don’t be so weak! It’s good enough for RFK Jr, it should be good enough for you!
I would expect nothing less than a cargo bike parking lot for @bromptonymous.ca’s housewarming
This was an absolutely electrifying read. I highly recommend it. It’s like reading a non-fiction storyline from The Americans, but the opposite direction, and in England.
Of course. I don’t live in a backwards third world hellscape, I live in Canada. Above one. Also, not Alberta.
AI’s primary function is to vacuum wealth up from below and move it to the top.
A hard part of solving weird issues and then describing them, is that in retrospect you always should've solved it earlier. It was usually obvious with the knowledge you have now. There were numerable junctures you should've made a different choice in. But GETTING to those junctures ~is the skill~.
Those two books are definitely not on American lists though. Ugh.. whatever. Stupid Alberta, this is why I left you!
I’m currently in a troubleshooting session with a vendor and their support triage is utterly crushing. I can’t even get a tiny peek behind the curtain and I’m dying because root cause analysis is my super power, and I can’t put my skills to practice. It’s like I’m asking a really slow LLM.
Not to defend him, but it seems like he’s replying to the person he called on who was yelling from the back. If she’d yelled something like: everything you say is lies, then this could be just a poor response using her words. The GOP are still all a bunch of liars and fully compromised, just sayin’
The Wars is far more graphic and it’s not on the list.
I’m quite confused why Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce are on this list.
The only thing that I can think of is there is violent death. But if I was to compare this versus The Wars.. I don't see The Wars on this list and that has a male-male rape scene in it.
Wait.. Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce are also on the list? I know people have taken issue with Joseph Boyden and his indigenous heritage claims, but.. what the heck is explicit in those? I don't recall.
CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With ‘Fired’ Carved Into It
no surprise to also see Looking for Alaska on the list. That's a common one.
Brave New World is also on this list.
This is long, but fantastic. This is so validating.
Excuse me??
The United States is in a situation that you cannot legislate your way out of, because there is one of the two viable parties who are not playing the same game. The entire GOP is compromised. Top to bottom at this point. Democrats haven't figured this out yet.
Wow.. Next level enshitification. Yo, microsoft, when are you going to put copilot in my fridge so you automatically order malk for me when I run out of milk?
More like the National Gardeners..
A sign your city is doing bike infrastructure right: you can move a bike shop by bike 🙌 #yyjbike
But the return on investment.. baby, who cares?! Late stage capitalism is so oppressively sucky.
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Racism doesn't pay the bills.
Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...
Domain ownership of that centralized database. That's all I can think of.
But it's a minimal value proposition. Maybe in a green economy where you could use it to determine the carbon footprint of the entire product lifecycle.
Yeah, the only advantage you'd potentially get is decentralized and standardized contracts for the data. So for example, if you're a retail reseller of Nike products, then the lifecycle is natively traceable even if the product is resold privately or through secondary markets until end of life.
I always thought that a good utilization of it is product lifecycle.. my thought was starting with supply chain all the way through resale and end of life.
Umo doesn't work for visitors often. I was downtown last week and talking to a couple who wanted to take the bus around town, but they couldn't download the Umo app because it wasn't available in their app store.
nature and game theory suggest otherwise..
she's right. It's not a good revolution, more of a Handmaid's tale kind of revolution.
Just don't pick Alberta. It's like Texas, but Canadian.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
There are available buyers.. Louisiana has greenwashed natural gas to qualify it as “green” energy.
Absolutely the kind of leader who should be in charge versus Newsome. Gavin is a useful pawn, but that’s where it needs to end. Under no circumstances can he be given presidential power.
I think what the world is looking for is examples of courage. You’ll have support if you take a stand.
Gene and Ethel (the middle class couple) will encourage him to write a strongly worded letter.
the rest of the world is seriously asking IF. What are y'all doing?
I'm a Derpy Tiger stan!
Who cares about fascism when there’s money to be made, right?
AI is ruining our existence. It’s all such a waste.
To breach the paywall, appears YahooFinance is running the story in full. finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-si...
This appears to be fake
NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
More detail and from last week courtesy @marisakabas.bsky.social: www.thehandbasket.co/p/dc-nationa...
Old news.. @marisakabas.bsky.social broke this last week.
I went to a Cracker Barrel once in my life and had the blandest food I’ve ever eaten.
In DC earlier this evening, US Marshals—one carrying a long gun—were patrolling the green/yellow line at the Gallery Place metro station. Photo shared with me (gun strap is visible but weapon out of view when pic was snapped, per witness):
Meanwhile Democratic leadership are tripping over their limp dicks to avoid endorsing this gem of a man.
Value(s): Building a better world for all (corporate entities)
Sold us out to get elected
Has to be The Producers.
As a subscriber, I really appreciate the transparency here. I also think that you did a lot of due diligence.
People (on the whole) are incredibly uninformed and rather stupid. They don't question what they see on Fox News, just take it as truth. These are the same people who are addicted to ChatGPT.
Normally I don't condone bullying, but man.. I wish this guy had been bullied to suicide. Would have saved America from some real grief.
Analysis introduces bias and bias is BAAAAD. Everything is just reactions to whatever is said or done by everyone in power. No questioning, no holding accountable. It’s nuts.
Big Myth: “You need to lose weight before you run” That’s straight-up gatekeeping. Can you move? Can you walk-jog, even if slowly? Congrats—you’re allowed to run. And here’s the kicker: even if your weight doesn’t change, your fitness and health can improve. Stop waiting for permission.
I think if I had an interview with a tech company that was insistent on being AI first, I'd just end the call.
This boy is sure proud..
So they're an example of FYGM?
Ah yes, little Meat Shield
Almost looks like a Danelectro
This makes me think of @tomflood.bsky.social
How’s the LOL Doll theme park doing?
Conducting a genocide will do that.. you don’t get a free pass because your religion was also subjected to one.
He’s trying to incite a civil war.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Shame on the Liberals for going after the workers. I should have trusted my gut when it came to Carney. His book is a plant to make him seem reasonable, but he's just another Conservative banker putting profits over people.
Is this related to the Giant Blue Ring in Calgary?
Has Meta delivered ANYTHING of value in recent memory? Like, when was the last time they actually delivered something useful?
I don't normally condone violence, but it would be pretty sweet to see Addison Barger clock Pham with "an errant throw"
Anyone remember when we were demanding the Epstein files? Kinda feels like we’re losing focus here.
It seems like the world is headed towards global conflict, all because one guy is in the Epstein files and he’s willing to incite World War 3 to get the attention off of that. What the fuck are we doing? It’s fucking working. He’s getting away with it.
How would you get bored on Vancouver island?
Anyone remember when we were demanding the Epstein files? Kinda feels like we’re losing focus here.
These don’t seem like legitimate federal agents. Anyone seen the Proud Boys?
Valley fever makes me think of the SNL sketch with Pedro Pascal when he wakes up from a coma.
There have been mentions of this over the past 12 months or so, but it becomes more and more clear every day: "AI" has reached the limits of its abilities, and it's not very impressive More data centers won't fix this
Solidarity with AC flight attendants ✊🏼
I wish I could pick up my old neighbourhood and plop it down here so we could all enjoy this!
Aww, thanks man!